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Pardons killers and child rapists

posted 25 days ago by Hailstorm (137)
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Among the 37 pardoned from death row was Jorge Avila-Torrez

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Jorge Avila-Torrez (born August 18, 1988) is an American serial killer and rapist
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Eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias went out to play on their bicycles but failed to return by nightfall on Mother's Day in 8 May 2005. Their families, police, and volunteers searched for the girls all night, but to no avail. The girls bodies were found the following day by Hobbs's father,

Both girls had suffered fatal stab wounds to their necks and faces.
In addition, they were sexually assaulted

Not long after the double murder, Avila-Torrez joined the Marines.

He was stationed at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall in Arlington County, Virginia. In 2009, he attacked 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Amanda Jean Snell, a Naval Military Intelligence specialist, strangling her to death in the barracks area.

In February 2010, Avila-Torrez stalked and abducted two women in Northern Virginia, binding them with electrical cords in their Ballston apartment. He kidnapped one of the women driving to a secluded area where he raped and strangled her before leaving her for dead at the side of the road.

The woman survived and reported the crime, leading to the arrest of Avila-Torrez

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On December 23, 2024, Avila-Torrez's federal death sentence was commuted after outgoing President Joe Biden issued a pardon to 37 out of the 40 inmates on the federal death row.

Jorge Avila-Torrez - Wikipedia

[–] Hailstorm (137) 25 days ago

imagine the taxpayer money that could have been saved.
Instead these child killers and rapists will now eat good this Christmas.
And for the next many many years.

If this was such a concern for Joe, why did he wait 4 years until he pardoned them?

Imagine if your two young daughters had been raped and thereafter stabbed to death, and the court sentenced their killer to death.

And then 15 years later the verdict is overturned because a defeated bitter politician wants to send a final FU to the next guy in change.

I don't know about you.... but i would be pretty upset, to put it mildly.

[–] RipRoss (570) 24 days ago

He said he commuted the sentences because he opposes the death penalty, but he made exceptions and left three men on death row for committing hate crimes. So he doesn’t really oppose the death penalty. He only opposes it for crimes that he considers to be less heinous, such as raping and murdering women and children.

[–] Hailstorm (137) 24 days ago

Exactly....... i mean, raping and murdering women and children...... we have all done it right?
No reason to get upset over it.

FJB